A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 13

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 13

“Hic.”

Astie couldn’t easily stop crying.

However, even in the midst of that, she wiped away the flowing tears and picked up the jawbone that had fallen to the floor, fitting it back onto the skull.

Veil and Basto stared at the scene, frozen in place.

The child continued speaking.

“The fortune-teller Grandfather too, hic! Don’t worry, hic! He ran far away, but he’s coming back here! Grandfather has medicine and bandages in his bag too…”

“Tie.”

Basto interrupted the child’s words.

“…You. In your hand.”

Astie looked down.

Clatter-

Once again, the skull’s jawbone fell out.

Astie fitted the bone back in place and then looked at Veil and Basto.

“Huh? Bone friend?”

Veil forgot to breathe and blinked blankly.

Only Astie chattered away as if nothing was wrong.

“You see, his name is Bone Friend, and he’s friends with Bone Friend 2 and Bone Friend 3. There are up to Bone Friend 23.”

The skull’s jawbone fell out again.

Astie made an annoyed “eeng” sound and fitted the jawbone back in place.

Then she asked “Huh?” to the air and frowned.

“What are you saying! That Veil oppa and mister could become Bone Friend 24 and 25. You shouldn’t say such mean things!”

“…”

“It’s a joke? But a joke is only a joke when the other person feels good too. If the other person feels bad, then it’s just being mean.”

“…”

“O-of course I know that, you’re really kind! Thank you for saving oppa and mister. I’ll repay you later even if I have to sell my thatched cottage!”

Veil and Basto’s gazes met.

“You don’t know what a thatched cottage is? That’s a house, a small house! You know proverbs, right?”

“…”

“Huh, you don’t know proverbs either? No, actually, it’s okay if you don’t know. Tie doesn’t know mountains of things either.”

“…”

“Of course, naturally! I’ll teach you one by one later. But friend, could you ask again when the fortune-teller Grandfather will arrive?”

Veil’s heart began beating more and more violently.

That’s why.

When an arm bone burst through the dirt right in front of them, he almost fell over in surprise.

When that bone pointed clearly toward somewhere in the forest behind them, he thought his heart would stop completely.

Clatter.

The bone that raised its index finger swayed and made a creaking sound.

Between the two men, Tie smiled brightly.

“Wow! It’s really the fortune-teller Grandfather!”

Far in the direction the finger bone pointed.

The fortune-teller Nordics, with blood streaming down his forehead, was indeed walking toward them.

“Chew thoroughly~ You can’t be a picky eater~”

Inside the cave, the bright laughter of a child echoed.

Basto and Veil, with bandages wrapped around their wounded areas, remained silent the entire time.

Nordics following behind was the same.

“Spinach, carrots, black beans! Strong bones!”

Tie was still holding the skull in her hand.

Still talking to herself while addressing it.

“Huh, Bone Friend 18 got hurt?”

“…”

“Wow- so if you’re underground, you just heal automatically. Then do you not have to get shots either?”

Veil and Basto exchanged glances.

Then they stopped walking at Tie’s next words.

“Huh? Mister, over here!”

Tie was pointing exactly at the spot where the Mastone had been.

“Look. There really aren’t any cracks!”

Basto stood frozen in place, staring blankly at the ground.

Tie’s words were true.

The Mastones that had been standing side by side in the darkness had disappeared at some point.

The cracks that had formed around them had also vanished.

“Bone friends are underground so they know everything, and it was really true! The bone friends must have finished off everything that was left! Wow! We conquered the Mastones! Two of them even!”

Dry saliva went down their throats.

Basto and Veil hadn’t been able to deal with all the monsters that poured out of the cracks.

They could tell just from the fact that one Rickelops had escaped the cave during the battle.

So they never thought the Mastones would be perfectly conquered…

Basto turned around, leaving the excited Tie behind.

And with a serious face, he stared at Veil and Nordics.

“Listen. If my judgment isn’t wrong, Tie is…”

Veil and Nordics nodded.

Before they knew it, Tie was sitting in the spot where the Mastone had been.

She had placed the skull neatly in front of her (probably because the jaw kept falling out) and was talking about whether it was dental clinic or dentist.

“You know, when I was in Jongno-gu, 107 Grandmother got implants! When you get implants, new teeth just grow. If you go to the dentist and get implants, wouldn’t that work?”

“…”

“Eh? There’s no dentist underground? Then what should we do… But do you have insurance? If you don’t have insurance, medical bills are a bomb. Implants are expensive, you see.”

“…”

“Then there’s nothing we can do. Actually, I don’t have insurance either? I caught a cold once and went to the hospital, but Father paid so much money that I felt sorry. 203 Aunt said it wouldn’t be expensive if I had Health Insurance, but I don’t have insurance so…”

What on earth implants were.

What a dentist was.

What Health Insurance was and who 203 Aunt was.

At times like this, Tie really seemed like an ordinary four-year-old.

Babbling about things she imagined by herself, having conversations with things that couldn’t converse.

At a glance, it was typical behavior of a young child, so there was nothing strange about it, but,

“The problem is that it really seems like she’s having a conversation with that skull.”

Nordics and Veil nodded.

Certainly, Tie wasn’t having a conversation with an imaginary friend right now.

Something that only she could hear and see.

She was probably having a conversation with a ‘real skeleton.’

“Ehehehe! Really? It’s so funny that Bone Friend 15 stole the bad monster’s teeth! The T-rex must be angry.”

“What do we do?”

Veil muttered, having turned pale.

“What are we supposed to do in a situation like this?”

However, the other two didn’t know the answer either.

Someone who could perform necromancy, which only appeared in legends, had appeared.

But that person was four years old and had no guardian at the moment?

“…Huh? Oh, really? You need monster cores to pass the Mercenary Exam? What? You’ll really collect and give me the cores?”

She didn’t even seem to know what she was doing right now.

Basto bit the corner of his lip and turned toward Tie.

And went toward the child who was having a friendly conversation with the skeleton.

“Tie.”

Astie finally looked up.

Looking at that purely innocent face, he felt inexplicably nervous and gulped.

“Your skeletons, I mean, your bone friends.”

The child’s eyes widened.

“Can you tell me how you summoned them?”

Tie tilted her head as if the question was difficult, then finally opened her mouth after a long while.

“I didn’t summon them though…?”

“Then what is it, huh? What the hell is it!”

Impatient Veil interrupted.

Tie tilted her head, then scratched the back of her head while reading their expressions.

“I just met them…”

“Just met? Skeletons? Where?”

“But Veil oppa, they’re not skeletons. They’re bone friends.”

Veil shut his mouth.

However, he soon showed a very pretty smile and asked through gritted teeth.

“Right. Bone friends. Where did you meet these bone friends?”

“Well, I met them in the forest while praying for no one to die. My prayer voice was so loud that they woke up from sleeping. Bone friends 1 through 23!”

At her giggling appearance, Veil was speechless.

Suddenly, Nordics’ voice was heard from behind.

“…She’s born with magic power. Very powerful magic power at that.”

Basto, Veil, and Tie’s gazes all turned toward Nordics.

Nordics looked at Tie with calm eyes and continued speaking.

“Her ability awakened without her realizing it. Since she’s still young, it’s natural that she doesn’t know what she did.”

“Tie has an ability?”

The child asked back.

Leaving behind the stiffened Basto and Veil, Nordics stepped forward.

“Yes. You seem to have a very remarkable ability. Usually awakening happens only after entering one’s teens, but you…”

Tie’s green eyes grew large.

The child, who had been thinking deeply about something, soon made an “Ah!” sound.

“C-could it be!”

The three men held their breath and focused on the words that would come from Tie’s lips.

However, what Tie said while slapping her knee was completely out of the blue.

“Blood is thicker than water!”

In the silence that fell.

The skeleton’s jaw fell off again.

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